Protean Desires: Queering the Body, Transforming the Text
April 22nd 2016
Singleton Abbey, University of Swansea

CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 18 MARCH

We are inviting proposals for 20-minute papers exploring Gender Fluidity and Queer Theory across disciplines and historical periods. We welcome proposals from postgraduate and early career researchers as well as established scholars. Papers on the theme of fluidity of identity – within textual self-performance, or in the transmission of ideas between periods and disciplines, for example – will be especially welcome. But we encourage submissions on any topic, which may include the following:

The Relationship between Bodies and Texts

Queer Theoretical Approaches to the Body

The Articulation of Desire, both Historicised and De-Historicised

Transgender and Intersex Identity

Queerness and the Transmission & Consumption of Texts

Gender Identity & Modernity/Postmodernity

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Jack Orchard (837501@swansea.ac.uk) and Maria Zygogianni (gencas.conferences@gmail.com) by 18th March 2016.